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PRESS RELEASE

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Yervant Zorian Joins AGBU Central Board of Directors

AGBU is pleased to announce the election of Yervant Zorian to its
Central Board of Directors on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the AGBU’s
85th General Assembly in Aleppo, Syria.

A lifetime member of AGBU and a graduate of Aleppo’s AGBU Lazar
Najarian-Calouste Gulbenkian school, Zorian currently serves as the
chair of AGBU Silicon Valley Chapter and the AGBU Armenian Virtual
College. He is the program chair of the ArmTech Congress, and a trustee
of the American University of Armenia (AUA). He holds an honorary
doctorate from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

After his election to the Central Board, Zorian was invited to address
the Assembly. "With great pleasure and excitement, I look forward to the
opportunity to cooperate with each one of you individually and as teams
in order to continue serving our nation through AGBU. And, I wish our
beloved organization every success in the years to come," he said.

Yervant Zorian is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Virage Logic
Corp. Previously, Zorian was a distinguished member of technical staff
at AT&T Bell Laboratories and the chief technology advisor of
LogicVision Inc. He serves as director on the boards of several
semiconductor technology start ups, and is an adjunct professor at the
University of British Columbia.

Zorian received an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University
of Southern California, a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from
McGill University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania. He served as the President of the IEEE Test Technology
Technical Council and the Vice President of IEEE Computer Society. He
also serves as the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Journal on Design &
Test of Computers and associate editor of the Journal on Electronic
Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He founded and chairs the IEEE
1500 embedded core test standards working group and serves on the Board
of Governors of CEDA.

He has authored more than 300 scientific papers and four books, holds 18
U.S. patents, and has received numerous best scientific paper awards and
Bell Labs’ R&D Achievement Award. A Fellow of the IEEE, Zorian was
selected by EE Times among the top 13 influencers on the semiconductor
industry since the invention of transistors. He was the 2005 recipient
of the prestigious Industrial Pioneer Award, and the 2006 recipient of
the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award.

Established in 1906, AGBU () is the world’s largest
non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
lives of some 400,000 Armenians on six continents.